BJ’s Shadorma & Beyond – Kyrielle Sonnet – November 1, 2014

Hello Everybody …

It’s Saturday, it’s a new month and it’s time to look at a prompt and a new poetry form!

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This is the third week into our new format and so far we’ve looked into  the Pleiades and the Rondine.  

Today I’m going to take you into one of my favorite forms the Kyrielle Sonnet.

A little background:

 As you can tell by the name is a combination of two historical forms. A  Kyrielle is a French form consisting of quatrains (a stanza of 4 lines) with the ending line of each stanza being repeats to create a refrain.  There is no limit to how many stanzas you use but the rhyming pattern is usually aabbZ (the z being the repeating line) or ababZ … sometimes the Kyrielle can be written aXaZ , the X here changes throughout the poem.

A Sonnet is a form also written with quatrains, but it is limited to 14 lines and has a particular rhyming pattern, it also has between 10 and 12 syllables per line, depending on if it’s an English, French or Italian sonnet.

 

And now the from:

When you put the forms together and you’ve got the Kyrielle Sonnet with the following rules:

Like the traditional Kyrielle poem, the Kyrielle Sonnet
also has a repeating line or phrase as a refrain (usually appearing  as the last line of each stanza).
Each line within the Kyrielle Sonnet consist of only 8 syllables
French poetry forms have a tendency to link back to the beginning of the poem, so common practice is to use the first and last line of the first quatrain as the ending  couplet.
This would also re-enforce the refrain within the poem.
Therefore, a good rhyming scheme
for a Kyrielle Sonnet would be:
AabB, ccbB, ddbB, AB -or- AbaB, cbcB, dbdB, AB.

Here’s a Kyrielle Sonnet I wrote a few months ago using the second rhyming scheme … You’ll find it HERE. I’m going to color code this poem so you can see the rhyming scheme more easily:

Toska

To never hear your voice again
To never see your open smile
To know each long day will begin,
Wondering if life is worthwhile …

Long is the morn now that your gone.
Often, it’s just an empty trial.
I’d slumber too and not go on …
Wondering if life is worthwhile …

Where are your kisses in the morn?
(Ah to pretend yet for awhile,
That loneliness may be forsworn.)
Wondering if life is worthwhile …

To never hear your voice again ..
Wondering if life is worthwhile.

(C) G.s.k. ’14

As you can see, the important rhyme is the “b” rhyme of the first stanza, which is repeated throughout the poem …  so try to avoid words like chaos or purple!

You can go to Shadow Poetry to look at other examples of this form: HERE.

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Now for the prompt … it’s November so I want to put up two photographic prompts that describe November here in Italy.

The most common flower we see here in Italy during this month is the Chrysanthemum.  This is because traditionally, in this Catholic country, November is the month when people put flowers on their relatives (and ancestor’s) graves … usually Mums.

This is also the month of the persimmon.  An orange-red fruit that reminded me of  tomatoes when I first saw them way back in the ’70s.  Now there are many varieties of persimmons including a tough variety  known as the apple-persimmon.

You can use the photos for your Shadorma poem if you don’t feel like trying the new form …

persimmons
in bright autumn skies
fleshy sweet
red round balls
the tree stands near father’s grave
with pretty blue mums.

(c) G.s.k. ’14

The Shadorma is a poem with 6 lines, commonly thought to be of Spanish origin, created to imitate a Japanese haiku.  There is no rhyming scheme but there is a syllable pattern it’s: 3-5-3-3-7-5.

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